going to run a positive campaign about the future of the country, we ll draw contrasts. the president has a fundamental vision how to move the country forward, how to rebuild the middle class, build an economy in which the middle class is growing and not shrinking, where hard work pays, responsibility is rewarded everybody plays by the same rules, we ll make that case and draw those contrasts. i don t think a fundamentally negative campaign will win the election. important interview, david axelrod in chicago. when we return, finish with the lack of greatness in the republican campaign this year. you re watching hardball only on msnbc. progresso. it fits! fantastic! [ man ] pro-gresso they fit! okay-y. okay??? i ve been eating progresso and now my favorite old jeans.fit. okay is there a woman i can talk to? [ male announcer ] progresso. 40 soups 100 calories or less.
politics and a hot new movie game change. only in america. nap time for newt gingrich. the long cam has taken its toll. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. the big story tonight why can t the gop make up its mind? mitt romney won the key state of ohio last night but barely. he took the top spot in the total of six super tuesday states but he s quite a long way from sewing up the nomination. he put a positive spin as you would expect on this endless road to the nomination race on cnbc this morning. i was pleased with our success last night. obviously we have a very strong lead in delegates and very strong lead in terms of the number of people that voted for our campaign. we ve organized a very effective team. joining me now is a top member of mitt romney s effective team. his press secretary. andrea, welcome. thank you for having me. by any normal yardstick, you ve won six out of the ten states on super tuesday. you ve got more delegates than the other th
and one wife blames the other for giving up a hiding spot in pakistan. also today we hear the government has charged all three of bin laden s widows with illegally entering the country. the head of the un emergency relief mission finally got to see for herself the shattered neighborhood in the syrian homes. that s where 47 people were killed just today. one argument on capitol hill today, should the united states get involved in syria militarily? i understand the strain on american military. i understand the sacrifices made by american families. but i also understand the proudest part of americans history is when we have tried to help other people achieve the same goal that we so passiona passionately articulated when we declared our independence. the united states can t jump up and say let s go drop some bombs on the syrian tanks. stay right here. fran townsend will be here in a couple of minutes. she s the national security contributor. we ll talk more about military op
we re developing a near 100-year supply of natural gas. that s something that we expect could support more than 600,000 jobs by the end of the decade. and that s why we ve worked with the private sector to develop a high-tech car battery that costs half as much as other batteries and can go up to 300 miles on a single charge. think about that. that will save you some money at the pump. and that is why we are helping companies like this one right here and plants like this one right here to make more cars and trucks that use less oil. when i ran for office, i went to detroit and gave a speech to automakers where i promised that i was going to raise fuel standards on our cars so that they d go further on a gallon of gas. i said we should do the same thing on trucks. i have to tell you when i said it, i didn t get a lot of applause in the room because there was a time when automakers were resisting higher fuel standards, because change isn t easy. but you know what? after three d
this was a big night tonight. lots of states. we re going to win a few. we re going to lose a few, but as it looks right now, brother going to get at least a couple of gold medals and a whole passel full of silver medals. so this morning romney cannot claim the crushing victories to win over skeptics, but he is amassing delegates. more than 400 so far. that s way ahead of santorum. gingrich and ron paul who failed to win a single state last night. but the race still has a long way to go. tonight we re doing some counting. we re counting up the delegates for the convention. it looks good. we re counting down the days until november and that looks even better. ohio may not have offered the most delegates last night, but it could be the most telling. and with romney scoring a razor thin victory, some say it speaks volumes about santorum as well. our political editor paul steinhauser is in columbus, the state capitol. paul, what should we take away from ohio? reporter: